Another rather obscure post as I have finally figured out how to set the screen resolution and more importantly the refresh rate on my Alpha Server DS10 running Tru64 UNIX 5.1B now that I have a Radeon 7500 graphics card … Continue reading →

A long time ago when I first had access to a VMS Workstation with DEC Windows you didn’t really need to worry about the screen resolution or refresh rate as the graphics options were essentially fixed by the hardware.

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) used to be the ‘de facto’ desktop on UNIX Workstations, is still used on OpenVMS, and remains popular with some users for its consistent look and feel and low resource utilization – remember that back … Continue reading →

Getting the nVidia drivers to work on whatever the current version of Debian can sometimes be a bit of a chore, there were binary drivers available in ‘lenny’, you had to download them and compile them for ‘squeeze’, and ‘wheezy’ … Continue reading →